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Song Picks of the Week

Monday is a good day to present new music, so we will post our Song Picks of the Week one day later in the future. Today is also Labor Day in the U.S. and the unofficial end of summer. At glamglare, we are looking forward to fall, to lots

LIFE SOUNDTRACK: Depeche Mode - Strangelove

With the summer waning, on the calendar, not exactly weather-wise in NYC yet, I’m thinking of memorable music-related summer moments in my life. One of them was 1987 in the Southern France town of St. Tropez. I was with a friend on a four weeks poset graduation trip and

3 Is A Band: Darlia

3 Is A Band: Darlia

It’s easy to be honest here, Darlia got me at… Darlia! I love the name, whatever its meaning, it makes for a memorable moniker, no easy feat these days. When I stumbled across Dear Diary the other day, I jokingly said to myself, “they better are a three piece”

NEW ALBUM: Tamaryn - Cranekiss

At the glamglare HQ, for various reasons, the country of New Zealand comes up a lot lately and it may be the destination of our next big travel project. This will be mostly about the people and landscape there, but it is good to know that there is also an

MUSIC QUOTES: Hiding in the Back

MUSIC QUOTES: Hiding in the Back

Dog Bite, Mercury Lounge for CMJ 2014

Song Picks of the Week

Want You by Chloë Sunshine This is an older track, but perfect to celebrate summer as long as we can: NYC band Chloë Sunshine provides our Song Pick of Monday with their song Want You. What’s for Song Pick of Tuesday? Let’s stay put and spin the new

NEW ALBUM: Funeral Advantage - Body Is Dead

When looking through the upcoming new album releases, I stumbled -of course- over the name Funeral Advantage. Who would choose such a name? Metal rockers? A morbid punk trio? A left-over 80s gothic band? Wrong on all accounts and extra points for Tyler Kershaw, the brain child behind the band

Fairground Saints - Fairground Saints (debut album)

The Los Angeles-based trio Fairground Saints make as per their own definition “Alternative Folk Pop” and incredibly beautifully and catchy so. Per my own definition, I’d rank them somewhere between the more folk-oriented John Mayer (and I admittedly am a HUGE fan!) and some of the more mainstream (in

Music Quotes: Live Music

Empress Of live @ Baby’s All Right, April 30th 2015

NEW ALBUM: Mensch - Tarifa

Mensch is the duo of Vale Poher and Carine “Marilou” Di Vita from the French town of Lyon. I’ve already loved their first, self-titled album in 2012 and still regret having missed their only NYC appearance in the defunct Bruar Falls. But now they are back with their second

Impressions of the extraordinary Elements Music & Arts Festival

Most of the month of August, I spent with my family in Germany and knew that I would want a “heavy dose” of music and New York, when coming back, that’s why Oliver got us tickets for the Elements Music & Arts Festival which took place for the 3rd

Song Picks of the Week

This week we have only five, travel-inspired song picks. For next week we are back to normal, with one song per day. About to take off in Berlin for JFK and Verona by Lastlings would be the right song to dream away the time above the clouds, if I could

Song Picks of the Week

It’s summer and glamglare is on vacation. That’s why the Song Picks of the Week are a few days late and not complete. Still, enjoy the music! Icelandic band Samaris sets local poems to cool electronic beats. That makes an intriguing Song Pick of the Day. Aero Flynn’

Music Quotes: Punk and Women

Music Quotes: Punk and Women

Dead Leaf Echo, Black Bear Bar June 2015

LIFE SOUNDTRACK: Spliff - Herzlichen Glückwunsch

<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/G5VEh95qMWg?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" height="480" width="640" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""> Elke already introduced the Berlin band Spliff, whose first two albums were both excellent.

Music Quotes: Painting and Music

Satorii at Pianos, May 2015

Song Picks of the Week

For every day in the week we pick a song: a new release, a discovery or simply something that fits the current mood. Like our Facebook Page and follow along day by day or find seven song picks every Sunday here on glamglare.com. t’s only Monday, so let’

Georgia releases debut album and visits NYC for for a breathtaking show to Baby's All Right

Georgia releases debut album and visits NYC for for a breathtaking show to Baby's All Right

From time to time there’s an artist who hits close to my musical sweet spot (electronic, solo, female, driving beats). This year it looks like there will be even two of them and the first one, Georgia released her self-titled debut album yesterday. Georgia is from London and a

Howard gave a heartfelt hometown show at Mercury Lounge

Howard gave a heartfelt hometown show at Mercury Lounge

As per their own promise on Facebook: “We try to make our hometown shows count. Don’t miss this one!” Howard delivered yesterday at Mercury Lounge. While I was particularly fond of their mellow, slowly building and immensely catchy Money Can’t Buy, which also ultimately lead to attending this

LIFE SOUNDTRACK: Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically

What Does Anything mean? Basically is the second album of the English band The Chameleons. My mother bought me the album, because she loved the ambient intro, not knowing that the remainder is guitar-driven post punk . It was also very different from what I liked at that time, but the

3 Is A Band: ON AN ON

For the last several days, I have And The Wave Has Two Sides, the second studio album of the Minneapolis three piece ON AN ON on repeat. I absolutely love it, every one of the twelve tracks. It’s a beautiful, harmonious album with airy guitars, unobtrusive percussion, lots of

Music Quotes: Guitar vs Piano

The Crookes live at Rough Trade NYC, CMJ October 2014

Boxed In ended their US tour with a delightful gig at Baby's All Right

Boxed In ended their US tour with a delightful gig at Baby's All Right

For a while now, I’ve been listening to Boxed In‘s superb self-titled debut album and wanted to see them already for SXSW, yet had to wait until last Thursday, to finally catch this UK four piece led by Oli Bayston. Boxed In played two shows in New York:

Song Picks of the Week

Gudiya by June and the Well Let’s quickly jet over the Atlantic to Italy, to listen to Francis by June and the Well. Luckily, we can all stay where we are and yet enjoy this sweet and mellow rock number, our Song Pick of Monday! There’s a lot

New This Week: Albert Hammond Jr. // Gwenno // Grimes

This week we couldn’t quite catch up with all the new music, but here are two albums we enjoyed. More is coming next week. Albert Hammond Jr. – Momentary Masters Albert Hammond Jr.’s second album sounds much like the Strokes but Julian Casablancas’ baritone and snarl is dearly missed.